Disposable bib



March 5, 1957 E. LENGER DISPOSABLE BIB Filed April 7, 1955 R ME mm V E mL L A M L E ATTORNEY DISPOSABLE BIB Elma L. Longer, Rock Island, 111.

Application April 7, 1955, Serial No. 499,839

2 Claims. (Cl. 249) The present invention relates to a bib for use by a small child and is intended to be made of absorbent material which can be so inexpensively made that it can be disposed of when it has been soiled. This bib is so constructed that a ring of flexible material can be put in and taken out of the structure and, when wet or soiled, the bib material can be thrown away or burned, as desired.

In the drawings:

Fig. 1 is an elevation of the bib, as seen from the front.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged fragmentary perspective section.

In the drawing there is shown a bib consisting of a plurality of foundation layers 1, covered at their upper half by a plurality of secondary layers 2, especially for absorption of spilled foods, particularly liquids; although, both layers preferably have absorption qualities. This bib is provided with a neck-receiving notch or opening 3, formed by cutting out semi-circular pieces from the layers 1 and 2. Then the layers of material are secured together around the semi-circular opening, a very short distance from the edge thereof, 'by heat sealing or, less desirably, by stitching as along the zone indicated by the dot-dash line 5.

This bib, when in use, has its upper part, consisting oi the layers 2, slipped through the ring 4, which is of resilient pliable material, such as plastic or the like, so that it can be opened up sufiiciently to enable the bib to be secured, loosely, around the childs neck, the layers 1 being on the opposite side of the ring. Since the layers 1 and 2 are secured only in the Zone 5 the layers 2 may be easily bunched to a size smaller than the ring 4 and withdrawn through the ring; and a new bib may be used with the same ring, because the layers 2 of such new bib may be similarly bunched and inserted through the ring 4, which obviates the necessity for threading and unthreading the ring through between the layers 1 and 2. Hence, after each bib has been soiled, the ring and soiled bib can be readily separated and the ring saved for use on another bib.

Having now described my invention, I claim:

1. A bib, comprising: a neck-encircling split ring having free ends and formed of resilient material capable or temporary deformation to enable spreading of said ends for receipt of the users neck and returnable to ring form to support said ring from the users neck; front and rear layers of bib material in superposed relation to each other and in depending relation to the lower aired States Patent 0 F 2,783,472 Patented Mar. 5, 1957 substantially semicircular portion of the ring, each layer having top, bottom and opposite side edges and being provided at its top edge with a substantially semicircular notch generally concentric with said lower ring portion and of a radius smaller than that of the inner periphery of the ring so as to present a marginal portion bordering said notch and lying radially inwardly of said lower ring portion, said notches being in register to dispose one marginal portion behind and the other in front of said lower ring portion with said ring portion sandwiched therebetween, the lateral dimension of the top edge of each layer being materially in excess of the lateral dimension of the notch so as to aiford a lateral portion of said layer at each side of said notch; said layers being secured together along said marginal portions and exclusively radially inwardly of said lower ring portion so that said layers normally hang freely from said lower ring portion solely via said secured-together marginal portions, said lateral portions of one layer being free from the respective lateral portions of the other layer and one layer being separable from the other layer along its bottom and side edges and being of flexible distortable material capable of lateral bunching to a lateral dimension less than the inside diameter of the ring so that said bunched layer is capacitated to pass axially through the ring for removal of the layers from the ring without spreading the ends of said ring.

2. A bib, comprising: a neck-encircling split ring having free ends and formed of resilient material capable of temporary deformation to enable spreading of said ends for receipt of the users neck and returnable to ring form to support said ring from the users neck; front and rear layers of bib material in superposed relation to each other and in depending relation to the lower substantially semicircular portion of the ring, each layer having top, bottom and opposite side edges and said top edge having a marginal portion lying radially inwardly of said lower ring portion, said marginal portions being in register respectively behind and in front of said lower ring portion with said ring portion sandwiched therebetween; said layers being secured together along said marginal portions and exclusively radially inwardly of said lower ring portion so that said layers normally hang freely from said lower ring portion solely via said secured-together marginal portions, one layer being separable from the other layer along its bottom and side edges and being of flexible distortable material capable of lateral bunching to a lateral dimension less than the inside diameter of the ring so that said bunched layer is capacitated to pass axially through the ring for removal of the layers from the ring without spreading the end of said ring.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 115,238 Raiford May 23, 1871 2,093,483 Sackett Sept. 21, 1937 2,523,565 Gardner Sept. 26, 1950 2,525,115 Britton Oct. 10, 1950 2,622,246 I-Iufnagel Dec. 23, 1952, 2,635,243 Eskey Apr. 21, 1953 

